Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-10-01

PERSONS WELL KNOWN IN wASHINGToN-A EofA
BILE WEDDING 10 TAKE PLACE THIS wlNTER-HoN
GEORGE BANcRoFrs HOSPITALITY.
Correspondence of THE EVENING STAR.
NEW YORK. september %, 1887.
The crowd here grows greater daily. and daily
one sees signs OF returning life in the streets
where the wealthy classes mostly reside, for the
very cool weather has hastened the return OF many
who had planned to nnger later in the mountains
or at other rural resorts and private country seats
Many OF the members OF the foreign legations are
here now, among others Count Lippe and Mr.
Janisch Of the German legation. Mr.. Preston. the
dean OF the diplomatic corps, will be here this
week to meet his family on their return from Ec.
rope. They are expected In day or two. The
wife and daughter OF Senator Mitchell OF oregon
MI ana Mrs Letter are ssIs IL
summer. Miss Matte Mitchell has been q great
belle In Paris. For the next two weeks the arri-
meroua Mrs. James Brown Potter. with the stamp
OF English success upon her efforts as an actress
Is expected In two or three days to arrive in New
She was in Paris with her relatives Just before she
sailed Tor New York. Her husband Is seriously III
at the Brevoort House here. Justice Bradley, OF
week.
Among those well known In washington who
ere sum 1S SeWRo are a @ Ban
De Reuterskjoid The latter couple were, on Sep
TENDER 20, at Newport, blessed by the arrival OF
their nrst Child, daughter. They have been
marr1ed nine years.
ANorABLE WEDDING TO TAKE PLACE here.
Mr.. Bancroft, who will be eighty seven years old
On October 3, will as usual celebrate his birthday
at Newport. The marriage OF his granddaughter,
Miss Susanna Bancroft and viscount de Cnaunae
Lanzey, OK France, is to take place early in The
comm1ng winter in Washington. Cardinal Glib
DOns and NJ. ROustan, the French minister, Will
unite the pair. the former with the religious, the
e,sct ~ Win Inc me eiv ceremony inc odegr9o
she says she should have been married years ago
put Tor the fact that she felt her first duty was 70
leave him because his sister, aged eighty two years
IS coming to live with him and be his companion.
Inc marriage engagement between Miss Bancroft
money to buy the engagement rings, SO that she
could make her own choice. Her bridesmaids, who
have already been selected, are Miss Endlcott,
daughter OF the secretary OF War; Miss Bessie
French, Miss Sue Dresser, daughter OF Gen. Ores.
ser, OF Newport; and Miss Shaw, OF Boston. There
are few. even among the gentlemen and ladies in
washington who are younger than himself, who
entertain more than does Mr.. Bancroft. In the
course Of three months In the early part OF this
his own family to dine with him, and his grand.
daughter gave several lunch parties.
"BLUE-BLooDED" GATHERING.
Early this month the Secretary OF War and Mrs
Endicottattended at Nahant at the elegant sum.
mer residence OF Mr.. and Mrs. George Peabody, the
parents of Mrs. Endicott, a reception given
In honor OF the Sixtieth wedding anniversary
OF the host and hostess. to whom. how.
ever, the reception was surprise
The Boston papers mention It as representa-.
tive gathering, which for real bioOded society
it would be difficult to equal. The Peabody, Sears
Endicott, Motley and Prince families tall related
to each other. were fully represented" A large
number OF guests drove over from Salem, Beverly
and Manchester, and some came from Boston
While there were many present OF the cottage res
idents OF Nahant. The spacious home or Mr.. and
flowers, and choice supper was served. The
Salem Cadet orchestra provided the music.
most OF the summer in their old home at L. nm
Mass, will shortly return to their Washington
SENATOR CHANDELIERS COUNTRY HOME.
Senator-elect Chandler and his wife, have beer
entertaining since the LIST OF September Mir
Kinsley and his wife, Mrs. Chambers sister, who
after spending the summer at their beautiful home
at West Point, where Mr.. Kinsley owns q large
tract OF land between Cranstons Hotel and The
beginning OF the government grounds belongins
to the Military Academy, went the 1st OF thii
month to Mr. Chambers home, Rosemont, Water
loo, N. H., where Mrs Hale. Mrs. Chambers mother
Mr.. Chandler and his present wife, John Parke1
Hale Chandler, who was born in Washington, ir
the spring of 1885, is the idol OF the family, who
and now talks with surprising fuency ma dis
tinctneSs. The scenery surrounding Mr.. Chandler
New Hampshire nome is beautiful and varied. and
every day for a month.
ABOUT wELL-KNowN PEOPLE.
Mrs. VIM. r. Morrison, wife OF the ex-Congress-
man now an Interstate Commerce Commissioner,
has been spending most of her time at her home
In Waterloo, ILL.,, and has greatly enjoyed the CON-
partnership OF a nOble-lOOking little nephew. aged
seven months, whose name is Carlisle Morrison,
friend in New York. not only bears this name ne
former" The plump baby has both his arms and
legs wholly bare in the photograph and friend
who saw the picture wrote TO Mrs. Morrison: II
don't wonder you call him a revenue reformer; his
limbs surely are all on the free list and the
duty S OF covering tne,r raw material has GER
Judge and Mrs. Macarthur, when they left
Mount McGregOr the middle Of September, went
back to Saratoga That resort has been having a
month while others will remain through October
Ex-Secretary Fish's daughter, formerly Miss
Edith, who Is so pleasantly remembered In Wash
cote, at Saratoga. Judge Dillon, whose handsome
daughter has visited senator McPherson's wife In
Washington, has had cottage at Saratoga all
His daughter is with him. Card parties are the
rage at Saratoga among the cottage residents.
the Old-faShiOned tint ct un.
TELEGRAPHIc RExrNrscENsEs.
A few days ago went to see Dr. Norvin Green,
whom knew in my childhood in Kentucky, In his
office, in the Western Union Geographic building,
where he fills the presidents chair as he has done
for several years. He has q large and very hand
somely furnished room on the decorated ceiling OF
which appear in the corners the portraits OF Frank
lin, Morse, Cyrus Field and Prof. Henry names
memorable as discovering and applying the forces
used in the telegraph or extending its range. This
being the jubilee year OF the electric telegraph or
fiftieth anniversary OF its invention by Prof.
Morse, in 1887, asked DR.. Green for some remin-
tSenceS, and from him and from MIR. JAS d.
Reid, who is also On duty among the managers OF
the business OF the Western Union, Learned much
OF interest.
DR.. Green went into the telegraph business in
Louisville in 1854, the two principal southwestern
telegraph lines having then been consolidated.
one OF them having been decided In the courts to
be an infringement on Morse's patent. Associated
then with Dr. Green were Mr.. Geo. L. Douglass,
who is still living in Louisville, and Messrs Bright
"a brother Of Jesse d. Brightly, Crockett, and
CraddOck.
The company, which was the nucleus from
which the great telegraph company has grown
up, was incorporated in 1872 as the Mississippi
Valley Printing Telegraph Company. There were
also other companies in the Southwest organized
within the ensuing twelve years, and after many
viclssitudes it was determined, as a matter OF
comparative necessity, as Dr.. Green expressed 1t,
to lease and unite the lines. and in 1854 Am0,